| Wong Bik-Wan | |
| Birth Date: | 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Hong Kong |
| Genre: | Novels, short stories |
| Movement: | Postcolonial literature, Sinophone |
| Notableworks: | 《溫柔與暴烈》Wenrou yu baolie, Tenderness and Violence, 《烈女圖》Lienü tu [Portraits of martyred women,《烈佬傳》 Lielao zhuan, Children of Darkness | image_size = ] |
Wong Bik-wan (Cantonese pronunciation) or Huang Biyun (Mandarin pronunciation, ; born 1961) is a Hong Kong writer. She has received multiple literary awards in Hong Kong,[1] [2] and is cited in The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature as a major contemporary writer.[3]
Wong was born into a Hong Kong Hakka family. She did part of her high school in Taiwan.
Wong graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a BA majoring in journalism and communication in 1984. She then worked as a screenwriter for TVB for a year. In 1987, she studied French and French literature at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 1988, she travelled to New York to work at a Chinese-language press in New York. She then received her MA degree in criminology under the Department of Sociology in the University of Hong Kong. Meanwhile, she also obtained a Diploma of Legal Studies in the HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education. Apart from her work as a fiction writer, she has worked as a reporter for The Standard, as a legislative assistant, and as a screenwriter for a broadcasting company.
Although her use of words and style often change with time, she still sticks to common themes like death, diseases, love and darkness. Some touch upon the year 1997 when Hong Kong was handed over to the People's Republic of China.[2]
| Year | Works | Awards | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 《溫柔與暴烈》Wenrou yu baolie, Tenderness and Violence | The 3rd Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature in Fiction | |
| 1996 | 《我們如此很好》Women ruci henhao [We are quite okay like this] | The 4th Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature in Essays | |
| 1997 | / | The 1st New Talent Award for Literature from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council | |
| 1999 | 《烈女圖》Lienü tu [Portraits of martyred women] | 中國時報開卷十大好書獎（中文創作類）China Times Open Book Award (Chinese Fiction) | |
| 2000 | 〈桃花紅〉Taohua hong [Peach blossom red], compiled in《無愛紀》Wuai ji [Loveless] | 花蹤文學獎第一屆世界華文小說首獎 First Prize in the 1st Hua Zong Literary Award for Sinophone Novels | |
| 2000 | 《烈女圖》Lienü tu [Portraits of martyred women] | The 6th Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature in Fiction | |
| 2001 | 《無愛紀 》Wuai ji [Loveless] | 台灣聯合報讀書人最佳書獎（文學類）The United Daily News of Taiwan Award (Literature) | |
| 2003 | 《後殖民誌》 Hou zhimin zhi [Postcolonial records] | 台灣聯合報讀書人最佳書獎（文學類）The United Daily News of Taiwan Award (Literature) | |
| 2012 | 《烈佬傳》 Lielao zhuan, Children of Darkness | The 12th Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature in Fiction | |
| 2014 | 《烈佬傳》 Lielao zhuan, Children of Darkness | The 5th Dream of the Red Chamber Award[4] |